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This is Nissan’s view of the future: the hydrogen-powered Nissan X-Trail Fuel Cell Vehicle (FCV). The prototype, worth 1.3 million euro, is the first registered in the UK and available for testing on our roads – and Green-Car-Guide was able to drive it around London.

Want to know about all the green cars at the British Motor Show? Then read our feature. Every green car of note is covered - including cars that you can buy today, cars that are coming soon, and a few concepts. Even a few cars that you wouldn't want to buy. So here's a summary of the green cars you need to know about...

Green-Car-Guide Live! 2008, sponsored by Masternaut Three X, took place in June, and was the UK’s largest Green Motor Show. Vehicles on show included class-leading low emission cars and commercial vehicles, a diesel-electric Land Rover Defender, the Oaktec Honda hybrid rally car, and a tractor and a racing truck that both use 100% sustainable biodiesel. See coverage with photos, video and TV.

Oil is Running Out

Driving it is as straightforward as you would expect. Simply put it in the one forward gear, take off the handbrake, then accelerate, steer and brake. That’s it. And yes it does drive like you would imagine a milk float to drive – but perhaps with a bit more fun, acceleration and nippiness.

British Sugar has opened the first bioethanol factory in the UK this week, making the fuel from locally-grown sugar beet. The £20 million site which is located in Wissington in Norfolk will produce 70 million litres of ethanol a year from 700,000 tonnes of sugar beet.

On 7th November the Waterfront Conference Company, in association with the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, held a conference in London entitled ‘Promoting Low Carbon Vehicles: Policy and Practical Action’.

Biodiesel-Expo is the largest biofuels event in Europe and the national showcase for all aspects of biodiesel production and usage. This year the event had over 4000 visitors, 110 stands, and was also host to the Biofuels Conference.

This Range Rover may not look like the greenest car on the planet – and it probably isn’t – however it is green in one very unique way – it uses engine oil made from plants.

Driving greenly - it’s big news. The methods of thrifty driving are fairly well understood: dainty foot on the throttle, think ahead and avoid the brake pedal, get into top gear asap and so on; you can do it pretty easily for a few miles. But what’s it like to drive super-economically for hundreds of miles?